@BeAware @cdp1337
It's not "everything opt-in only" we are talking only about BlueSky-like commercial enterprises making non-native proprietary bridges, trying to move into almost Fediverse-only principle-orientated spaces (such as being much less-corporate)...

...like a different fish altogether

or shark 🦈 joining into Fediverse waters... different type of protocol and servers and even people... all add up to something different.

So there is good reason to ask people to opt-in because "Hi we're kinda-Capitalism and we're here coming here to pretend to be like you but not quite AND like a colonial empire making a bridge... we offer our people and services 'kinda like' you do in smaller caring ways, but we do it on massive corporate scale for an engineering kick mostly and "who knows what will happen later?".

"Why do you care about our reasons?" is a question to ask yourself and them.

Since it's not guaranteed or able to be said in future about these type being bought out too 🤑 it is a real danger we're still seeing happen to communities... in exchange for 💰 down the line 🍂.

So even if you or corporate skeleton care in the same way today. it doesn't mean a rug pull later won't happen when someone totally different buys this out and put it into their own portfolio or puts it to sleep...

[no offence but it is different for more reasons than you say even if I'm talking to wrong person for some of these things].

Aside from the principles and priorities by BlueSky being in such corporate containers I think I'd like to entertain many points here and just get that cleared up....

I did read that link and basically find the google / facebook / twitters style thing engineered for Fediverse thing is not what we want (and why almost all came here in first place) so people working in BlueSky who previously were developing and working or google etc - all difficult to see as something not to later regret and usual recipe for disaster / selling out...

I'm not doubting the technological but it's little comfort to try something you could have had using ActivityPub but 'you' (those companies) ALREADY CHOSE DIFFERENT and now there is a reason(s) they want to "tap-in" ⛏️ / get into this side of things...

They could have just made Mastodon instances and been happy with more humble ways... but I'm sure there's going to be other plans here - for them it has to be constant profit for almost no reason. Never good.

I guess Jack Dorsey not being part of it any more and deleting his account is also one kind of sign too and ethical check...(he's still of a kind of general sitting board of council, but he's not working on this just in case people think he still is).

Again written for speed to really think about differences here...

Merging a proprietary protocol is a BIG DIFFERENCE... and then other reasons deepen the differences. A different fish.

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